Floyd Mayweather JR / Manny Pacquiao - NEWS STREAM -

[SugarBoxing]

yea, 40 days and 40 nights

[Beanz]

So Sky Tv have won the rights as suggested by smashup and confirmed by Primo in http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...ox-office.html

"Sky Sports Box Office have won the race to show the $300m superfight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao - and it will be the most-expensive in UK box-office history.
The May 2 fight will be shown on pay-per-view, with Sky customers being charged £19.95 to watch the clash.
That price will rise by a fiver on the day of the fight, provided bookings are made via remote control and online, but it will cost £24.95 if ordered by phone.
That would make it £3 more expensive than Carl Froch-George Groves last May, and £10 more expensive than Mayweather-Ricky Hatton eight years ago."

[Beanz]

Looks like the super fight could generate £270 Million ($400 Million)

"The money that will be generated by the welterweight title unification fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao -- already expected to be a slam dunk to break every revenue record in combat sports history -- is growing by the day and could easily surpass $400 million (£270m).
The live gate for the May 2 fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas will generate a staggering $74m (£50m) from the sale of a little more than 15,000 tickets, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter, told ESPN on Monday.
That is almost four times the gate record of $20,003,150 (£13.4m) generated by ticket sales for Mayweather's light-middleweight unification fight against Canelo Alvarez, also at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in September 2013."

Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao showdown could make a record-shattering £270m | Boxing News | ESPN.co.uk

[Beanz]

The Official Poster is here

[Beanz]

"With just 40 days until Floyd Mayweather finally comes face-to-face with Manny Pacquiao inside a ring, the official poster for their mega-fight has been released.The two boxers - Mayweather on the left and Pacquiao on the right - are both drenched in sweat as they pose in their fight trunks, staring menacingly down the camera with their hands wrapped.
Their names are displayed in striking orange font, as is the date of the fight (May 2) and the start times of the Las Vegas show.


Also included are logos for the fight's venue, the MGM Grand, and Showtime and HBO - the US broadcasters which will jointly broadcast the show live on pay-per-view."

Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao poster ahead of $300m Las Vegas showdown | Daily Mail Online

[smashup]

Fight set to generate £270 Million
So Sky are charging £19.99 and if (which it should) can beat Hatton v Mayweathers PPV buys of 1.2 Million that's £24 Million right there, my mate runs a pub and he's having a lock in to show it through Sky PPV but he has to pay Sky £220 for the PPV.
There's gonna be thousands of pubs/clubs (maybe tens of thousands) doing the same so the figures in the UK alone are astronomical.
I have head that Floyd as part of the deal got to pick which UK platform he wants to show it (BT Sports, Boxnation and Sky all matched the asking price) and he gets a cut of the revenue which is obviously why Sky got it as they have a ready made larger audience to sell it to.

Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao showdown could make a record-shattering £270m | Boxing News | ESPN.co.uk

The fight is also set to make more in just ticket sales than the Superbowl which made $60 million this year.
That's incredible when you think the superbowl stadium must hold 80-90 Thousand compared to the MGM Grand which only holds 15,000

http://www.theneweconomy.com/home/bo...ve-in-history?

[Beanz]

Roach has added to the claims that Floyd got beat up in sparring

"Boxing trainer Freddie Roach has added to claims that Floyd Mayweather Jr. recently suffered a pounding in training ahead of his May 2 clash with Manny Pacquiao.
Roach, who is preparing Pacquiao for the Las Vegas event, spoke shortly after rumours circulated that former undisputed welterweight champion Zab Judah knocked Mayweather down "for at least 10 seconds," originally reported by Ghanaian website Allsports.com.gh"

Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: Freddie Roach Fuels Claim Floyd Got Beat Up in Training | Bleacher Report

[pacfan]

yea, 40 days and 40 nights

Yup, the longest days and night...

[Beanz]

It seems that anyone in the Philippines will be able to chose which channel to watch the fight after Pacquiao hammered out a deal for them all to broadcast the fight simultaneously.

Manny Pacquiao Pulls Off Historic Multi-Network TV Coup - Boxing News

[Beanz]

Espinoza thinks that Floyd would make a great commentator post fight career. More on that and his part in brokering the deal here

Inside the Mayweather-Pacquiao Deal From Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza - The Daily Fix - WSJ

[Beanz]

Ronda Rousey breaks down the fight

[Beanz]

The leg cramp rumours will not go away

Manny Pacquiao is dealing with leg cramps while prepping for Floyd Mayweather fight - The Washington Post

[Beanz]

Is it sensible to be comparing Maidana and Pacquiao ?

"Nobody is scoring a KO in this fight. Maidana hits much harder than Pacquiao and couldn’t do it with clean punches from awkward angles. Pacquiao hasn’t scored a knockout in six years and, similar to Mayweather, is not a powerful welterweight like Maidana. At welterweight, Pacquiao has only scored one stoppage and it was a premature referee stoppage of Miguel Cotto back in 2009. Before that, he knocked out Ricky Hatton at junior welterweight in his last real KO. Since moving up to junior welterweight and above, in nine wins, Pacquiao only has two wins by stoppage and they were both six years ago. Maidana, on the other hand, has scored KO’s in three of his four wins at welterweight, on top of 28 KO’s in 31 wins at junior welterweight. At junior welterweight and above, Maidana’s KO percentage is over 80 percent, while Pacquiao’s is just over 20 percent like Mayweather, JR.’s. Predicting a knockout for either man is wishful thinking"

Floyd Mayweather, JR. Vs Manny Pacquiao: Stop Using Marcos Maidana as a Gauge | Ringside Report